Sheet-metal receptacle.



PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907.

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LEWIS F. BETTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO H. BLAKE GILMORE AND ONE-FOURTH TO JOSEPH A. KENNEDY, BOTH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHEET-METAL RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

IEatented. June 4, 1907.

Application filed September 13, 1906- Serial No. 334.397.

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The invention consists in certain novel features and arrangements of parts and details of construction by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show the invention as applied to an ash-can.

Figure l is a partial side elevation and vertical section of the can. The plane of section being indicated by the line 11 in the succeeding figure. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through a portion of the can, taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is'a vertical section showing the junction of the can body and top-ring, and the means for at taching the stiffening-ribs to the latter. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the can-body and bottom. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 55 in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a corresponding view on the line 6-6 in thesame figure. Fig. 7 is a vertical section through the bail-ear. Fig. 8 is a side view of the bail-ear, showing the adjacent portion of the Fig. 9 is a face view of one of the handles and its attaching loop. Fig. 10 is a section showing the action of the dies in forming the topring and bottom from a single sheet of metal. Fig. 11 is a side view of the upper end of one of the stiffening-ribs before its attachment to the top-ring.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

A is the body of the can, formed of one or more pieces of sheet metal, in the form of a B is the bottom and C the top-ring, each of sheet metal and secured to the body as will be described. The top-ring has a plane horizontally-disposed annular portion or rim, the outer margin of which is rolled under to inclose a wire C and provide a strong rounded edge, and has a downwardly projecting flange O tapered to match to the tapered upper portion of the body and fit snugly therein.

The bottom B is a disk having a flaring upturned marginal flange B matching to and fitting closely within the lower end of the body. Its taper holds it against passing through the smaller opening at the lower end of the body and it is held against upward movement by an annular crease or bead a on the inner surface of the body immediately above the flange B and produced after the insertion of the bottom. A similar crease or bead a at the upper end locks the body and flange C of the top-ring together.

D D are the stiffening-ribs of sheet metal formed by dies into channel-iron shape with a flange D on each side, and extending vertically on the outer face of the body from the lower edge to the under face of the top-ring. There may be as many ribs D as found necessary or desirable, the drawing shows a cam having six equally spaced.

A A are tongues formed in the body by making angular cuts therein and bending the metal partlally inclosed by the cuts slightly outwardly, and are produced in opposite pairs one above the other as shown.

The ribs D are attached to the body by engaging the flanges D D beneath the lower pair of tongues and similarly engaging the succeeding pairs of tongues as the ribs are driven toward the top-ring. The latter is provided with slots 0 in which are received lugs D on the ribs, which lugs are later curled about the rounded edge of the top-ring and serve to hold the ribs against withdrawal.

which the can may be lifted, and G is a bail for like service. The handle is in the form of a link and is held in the bightor loop F of a-strip of metal folded upon itself and having its ends passed through a horizontal cut a in the body, from the exterior to the interior, and again passed through a similar lower cut a to the exterior and the extremities folded up against the body as at F, and thus firmly secured thereto.

The bail G has a hook at each end as usual, engaged in an ear G formed by bending a strip of metal to follow the contour of one of the ribs and project from the outer face thereof in a semicircular curve. The ends of the strip are folded inward to engage the flanges D of the rib. As shown in the drawings the ear is stiffened by a strip of metal Gr partially inclosed by the main portion of the ear but not extending beneath the flanges D The bottom B is preferably slightly domed to increase its rigidity.

In assembling the parts, the top-ring and.

bottom are inserted in the body and the beads a a produced, the ribs are then introduced, with their lugs D in the slots 0, and forced firmly home and the lugs then curled about the edge of the rim, the bail-ears G being located at the proper points when the ribs are inserted. The handles F are engaged as above described, and the ends F and tongues A firmly compressed by suitable tools. The whole is then galvanized the melted zi-nc serving not only to coat the sheet metal but also to solder all the portions to gether and fill the joints. The wood strips E are then driven into the ribs, and the bail attached to the ears.

It will be observed that the body, top-ring, bottom, and ribs, with the required cuts and slots therein, are all formedseparately and mainly by dies, and are assembled without rivets, and without soldering other than the galvanizing operation.

The top-ring andv the bottom are preferably cut from a single sheet, asshown in Fig.

10; the bottom. is produced without waste from the metal within the top-ring by the annular cut indicated by the dotted lines rc ac, the portions adjacent to such out are bent by-the dies to form the flanges B C and the top-ring shaped at the same time to receive the wire C.

The receptacle thus constructed is eminently strong and economical to manufacture, and well adapted to resist the strains due to rough handling to which articles of this class are exposed. The strips of wood extending below the bottom receive the severest strains to which the can is subjected, protect that portion of the can and tend to transfer part of such strains to the top ring and body over a considerable area of the latter.

Modifications may be made in. the forms and proportions, and parts may be used without the whole.

The bail and handles may be attached by other means than here shown, and either or both may be omitted if preferred.

Although I have described the invention as applied to an ash-can it will be understood that garbage-pails and stable-buckets and other receptacles may be similarly constructed with such variations as may be found necessary or-desirable in adapting the invention to such articles.

I claim 1. In a receptacle of the character set forth, a tapered body, a top-ring having a depend ent annular flange received in and matching to the upper portion of said body, a bottom inserted through the upper portion of said body, an upturned annular flan e on said a bottom matching the taper of sai body and engaged with the lower portion thereof, and annular beads in said body engaging said flanges and holding said top-ring and bottom.

2. In a receptacle of the character set forth, asheet-metal body having tongues formed thereon and integral therewith, a top-ring extending beyond the periphery of said body at the top and having slots therein, stiffeningribs of sheet-metal having flanges engaged by said ton ues, and a lug at the upper end of each of sai ribs received in one of said slots and joined to said top-ring by partially inclosing the edge thereof.-

3. In a receptacle of the character set forth, a sheet-metal body having tongues formed thereon and integral therewith, a top-ring secured to the top of said body and extending beyond the periphery thereof, a stiffening-wire in said top-ring, a slot in the latter, a stiffening-rib of sheet-metal having flanges thereon engaged by said tongues, and a lug at the upper end of said rib extending through said slot and joined to said top-ring by. partially inclosing the edge thereof and said stiffening-wire.

4. In a receptacle of the character set forth, a sheet-metal body having tongues formed thereon. and integral therewith, a top-ring secured to the top of said body and extending beyond the periphery thereof, and having slots in such. extended portions, hollow stiffening-ribs having flanges engaged by said tongues, and lugs on said ribs extending through said slots and secured to said topring, and strips of Wood received in said ribs and abutting against the under face of said top-ring and projecting below said body.

5. In a receptacle of the character set forth, a sheet-metal body having tongues formed thereon and integral therewith, a stiffeningrib having a flange on each side .thereof en gaged by said tongues, and a bail-ear com-' prising a strip of metal having its ends folded and partially inclosing said flanges.

6. In a receptacle of the character set forth,

a sheet-metal body having two laterally- 1 form a big-ht, a handle received in said bight In testimony that I claim the invention and secured to said body by passing the ends above set forth I aflix my signature, inpres- 10-" of said strip through one of said cuts from ence of two Witnesses.

the exterior of said body to the interior and thence through the other of said cuts from LEWIS BETTS' the interior to the exterior, and folding the Witnesses:

extremities of said ends against the exterior G. R. PATOHEN,

face of said body. CHARLES R. SEARLE. 

